Engineering the optical properties of gold nanorods: Independent tuning of surface plasmon energy, extinction coefficient, and scattering cross section

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 5918-5926

  Park, Kyoungweon ^a,b   Biswas, Sushmita ^a,b   Kanel, Sushil ^c   Nepal, Dhriti ^a   Vaia, Richard A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UES INC   (United States)

^c Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION CROSS SECTIONS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; EXTINCTION CROSS SECTION; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION; SCATTERING EFFICIENCY; STRUCTURE-PROPERTY CORRELATION;

ASPECT RATIO; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMONS; SCATTERING;

GOLD;

EID: 84897869414     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp5013279     Document Type: Article

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